St. Johnsbury Academy Usa

St. Johnsbury Academy was founded in 1842 by Erastus, Thaddeus, and Joseph Fairbanks to provide "intellectual, moral, and religious training for their own children and the children of the community." The school was reincorporated in 1873 in order to accomplish the founders' goal of providing exemplary educational opportunities to a wider range for students, not just those destined for the liberal arts colleges and universities.

By creating a comprehensive school, offering technical training as well as college preparatory studies, the founders created a school that was unique among New England academies. This action greatly changed the character of the school enabling it to serve the educational needs of St. Johnsbury and the surrounding communities. A long standing voucher system, providing area students with educational choice, continues to allow the Academy to enroll the majority of students from the St. Johnsbury area while maintaining its own independence. For more than a century and a half this commitment has remained at the very heart of St. Johnsbury Academy's educational philosophy. Employing authentic and traditional methodologies, the school remains committed to personally relevant instruction.

Mission & Philosophy

This is the mission of St. Johnsbury Academy, a diverse, comprehensive, and independent educational community grounded by our traditions, our deep optimism regarding young people, and our commitment to academic excellence :

Character :

To teach good character by modeling and fostering compassion, respect, responsibility, and integrity.

Inquiry :

To foster a love for learning by challenging individuals to pursue knowledge, creativity, and intellectual self-reliance.

Community :

To encourage each individual to understand his or her relationships, rights, and responsibilities within a community that is itself part of the larger world.

Mission :

Acquire the technical skills necessary to be creative and skillful producers of art in their chosen fields in the performing or visual arts;

Become appreciative, intelligent, and critical spectators of each of the performing and visual arts;

Come to a familiarity with exemplary works of art from various cultures and historical periods, and achieve a basic understanding of art history and the role of art in history and

Develop a passion for their chosen art form that encourages them to pursue it after they graduate from the Academy.